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Mar Name Meaning
Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Asturian-Leonese, and Catalan:
topographic name for someone living by the sea, from mar ‘sea’
(Latin mare).German: nickname from Middle High
German mar(w) ‘tender’, ‘delicate’.Hungarian
(Már): from a short form of the personal name
Márkus or Márk, Hungarian forms of Marcus
and Mark; or possibly from the personal name Márton,
Hungarian form of Martin.Chinese: variant of
Ma.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mar
Name Distribution of Mar Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mar families
 52 - 102  18 - 51 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Mar families
|
7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mar families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mar census records
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Mar Family Origin
Mar Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Mar
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Mar Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Mar census records
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Mar Civil War Service Records
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